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This week, the Department of Health and Human Services announced $100 million in American Rescue Plan funding for state programs supporting primary health care workers in underserved communities.

Steven Burke said one way to overcome those challenges is good business relationships among government customers and external data owners.

By Stephanie Kanowitz Jan 29, 2021 When the National Defense Authorization Act required the IRS procurement office to insert telecommunications security language into all its contracts, staff used a bot to accomplish in three days what would have taken a year. “As we looked at the number of contracts that had that criteria, it was 1,466 active contracts,” IRS Chief Procurement Officer Shanna Webbers said. “It would have taken us almost up to a year to modify all of those contracts.” Cal...

Department of Agriculture 1. The Secretary of the Department of Agriculture should direct the Chief Data Officer to perform an assessment of current staff data literacy and data skills, conduct a gap analysis between the current staffs skills and the skills the agency requires, and establish a baseline performance plan to close the identified data skills and literacy gaps. (Recommendation 1) Open OpenActions to satisfy the intent of the recommendation have not been...